Example sentences of "took place at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On January 24 1987 a demonstration with 12,000 to 15,000 demonstrators took place at the premises of newspaper proprietors in Wapping and there were many arrests .
2 Five days after the disaster at Douaumont , on May 13th , the third major conference of the campaign took place at the Crown Prince 's headquarters .
3 The memorial celebration for Philip took place at the Aldwych Theatre — and it was triumphant .
4 A great deal of discussion took place at the playground gate and when questionnaires were returned there was a 95 per cent response rate with over 98 per cent of those parents in favour of adopting a uniform on a voluntary basis including an agreement on colour and style .
5 The next major episode of industrial conflict took place at the Grunwick film-processing factory in London , where workers — a high proportion of them Asian women — were demanding the right to unionise .
6 The final rounds of the judging took place at the charity ball that evening .
7 The conference took place at the Polytechnic of Central London in January 1973 , with Kerr and Berrill each chairing one of the sessions .
8 According to some sources , the death of Apollonius of Tyana took place at the sanctuary of Diktynna .
9 Members of the national and specialist press attended the launch of Head 's new Anatom System tennis shoe , which took place at the Roehampton Club during April .
10 Every twelve years , a ceremony known as the Kumbh mela took place at the confluence of the Jumna ( Yamuna ) and Ganges rivers just outside Allahabad .
11 The boy had just started work when a raid took place at the newsagents where he worked .
12 These violent rituals became a regular event and the police and I were soon on first-name terms , although most of the beatings took place at the week-ends when I was at my Pop 's house .
13 The break-in took place at the System Business Machines premises on the town 's Britannia Park industrial estate .
14 Then on 21 May , while Gandhi languished in jail , one of the great set pieces of the civil disobedience movement , more successful perhaps than any other in arousing world-wide sympathy with the Indian cause , took place at the Dharsana salt works .
15 Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ?
16 The September 27 show took place at the Los Angeles Coliseum , situated in downtown LA , which was badly hit in the April riots .
17 The broadcast took place at the beginning of September from the site of a National Beach Clean Day , sponsored by the National Trust and Radio 2 .
18 The OECD Economic Outlook of June 1990 attributed most of the favourable development in inflation at the end of 1989 to a stabilization of oil prices , the further softening of non-oil raw material prices , and the absorption of the effects of indirect tax increases which took place at the beginning of 1989 .
19 The raid took place at the Elf service station at Woodmancote near Dursley .
20 Disorder took place at the Assembly meetings held before and after the changeover .
21 The meeting took place at the home of area co-ordinator Mike Burley .
22 It is his first gallery exhibition in this country for more than five years and follows the exhilarating survey which took place at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1989 .
23 Prague 's second famous defenestration took place at the Hradčany Castle when Bohemian Protestants again thought themselves threatened in 1618 .
24 For the first time a very important ceremony , the Rite of Election , took place at the Cathedral , led by Bishop Brewer .
25 Sponsored crazy ball bounces took place at the Kent Rally and in all 's classes to support the ‘ Be a Sport for Comic Relief ’ campaign .
26 Since a more widely ranging survey of Ernst 's art , selected by leading authority , Werner Spies , and attempting , not entirely convincingly , to rehabilitate the artist 's later work , took place at the Tate Gallery in 1991 and was shown in Stuttgart and Dusseldorf , this exhibition will not be presented in any European museum .
27 If , when you attended the major retrospective of your works which recently took place at the Tate Gallery , someone had asked you : Marcel Duchamp , what have you done with your life ?
28 These two ladies decided to form a social club , and organised a tea party which took place at the Ladies Park Club , where the Spurs Club was launched .
29 A meeting then took place at the border on Nov. 8 between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki , first on the German side at Frankfurt an der Oder and then across the river at Slubice ( part of pre-1945 Frankfurt ) .
30 THe IVth European Conference took place at the University of Stirling from 27-31 August 1990 and was attended by approximately 515 participants .
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